Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12094, -9.72634
- SMR number
- GA110-070----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In small overgrown fields towards the SW coast of Inis Mór. Known locally as An Cnocán Glas (pers. comm. T. Robinson), it consists of a grassed-over mound of earth and stone, oval in plan (30m by 20m, H 1.8m). Three field walls cut across the monument: one running roughly E-W and two running N-S. It limits at E and W are also bounded by further field walls. During the course of field inspection as part of the AranLIFE Farming Project (2014-2018) (see www.aranlife.ie) it was concluded that the mound may be the remains of two conjoined structures: a subcircular mound opening to the SW with a large curving annexe extending off it and running in an arc westwards before curving SE along the ridge. (Robinson 1980)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 10 December 2018
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.